Human Rights Watch pushes Qatar to enforce, expand labor law to protect workers’ rights

In its latest report, Human Rights Watch has once again blasted Qatar for its treatment of low-income migrant workers, whose numbers are expected to increase by an estimated million people in the run-up to the 2022 World Cup.

The international advocacy group told Doha News that it will hold a press conference here next week to push for improved conditions for the country’s labor class, who account for more than half of Qatar’s nearly 2 million residents. 

Last summer, HRW released a landmark report investigating the plight of migrant workers, outlining squalid living conditions, exploitation and other violations.

Its latest release, the 665-page 2013 World Report, touches on human rights issues in more than 90 countries, and also condemns November’s life sentencing of a Qatari poet charged with inciting the overthrow of the regime. His appeals judgment will be heard next month.

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